Her wild American self : short stories / by M. Evelina Galang.

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Stories on Filipina Americans, exploring what it is to be American and female. Our Fathers describes a daughter's reaction upon seeing her father, a lawyer, work in the U.S. as a busboy, while The Look-Alike Women, is on white men's simplistic perceptions of Oriental women.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Galang, M. Evelina, 1961-
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press, [1996], ©1996.
Subjects:
Filipino American women > Fiction.
Women > United States > Fiction.
Filipino Americans > Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Physical Description:184 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The look-alike women
  • Rose colored
  • Talk to me, Milagros
  • Baby lust
  • Her wild American self
  • Lectures on how you never lived back home
  • Figures
  • Our fathers
  • Contravida
  • Miss Teenage Sampaguita
  • Filming sausage
  • Mix like stir fry.